{"id":235832,"date":"2026-04-24T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/researchers-use-statistics-and-math-to-understand-how-the-brain-works"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:12:10","slug":"researchers-use-statistics-and-math-to-understand-how-the-brain-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/researchers-use-statistics-and-math-to-understand-how-the-brain-works","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use statistics and math to understand how the brain works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-statistics-and-math-to-understand-how-the-brain-works.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing rivals the human brain\u2019s complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a billion-billion) mathematical calculations every second and use the equivalent of only 20 watts of power. As impressive as the brain is, neurologists can\u2019t fully explain how neurons work together.<\/p>\n<p>To help find answers, researchers at the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS) at Georgia Tech are using math, data, and AI to unlock the secrets of thought. Together they are helping turn the brain\u2019s raw electrical \u201cnoise\u201d into real insights about how people think, move, and perceive the world.<\/p>\n<p>Fair warning: Prepare your neurons for the complexity of this brain research ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing rivals the human brain\u2019s complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a billion-billion) mathematical calculations every second and use the equivalent of only 20 watts of power. As impressive as the brain is, neurologists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}